Last month thousands of speakers of Ayacucho Quechua in Peru joined together to celebrate the publication of a new, updated version of the Bible in their language. They flooded into the city of Ayacucho (also known as Huamanga) and the town of Huanta, singing and celebrating and waving banners with Scripture verses. Young and old, […]

This week, members of United Bible Societies – the world’s largest translator, publisher and distributor of the Bible – will meet in the Netherlands to share new ideas, creativity and expertise in Bible publishing. The fourth UBS Publishing Convention, entitled ‘From Local to Global: innovation through collaboration’, runs from May 26-31 and will be attended […]

A football tournament organised by the Bible Society of Albania and its partners is bringing together churches from different denominations and getting hundreds of young people to read the Bible. As evening falls over Tirana, Albania’s capital city, two groups of young men stand quietly on a football pitch, heads bowed solemnly as they read […]

Christians in northwest Bahrain now have easier access to Bibles and other Christian resources thanks to the opening earlier this month of a new Bible Resource Centre in the coastal town of Al Budaiya. The new centre was opened by the Bible Society in the Gulf and ‘Rivers of Joy’ – a non-denominational church. It […]

How a sad and scared Mexican boy found hope in the Bible and the courage to rebuild his life on God’s Word. Donovan is only 11 but has already experienced a great deal of hardship and fear. Brought up in a tiny house made of wood and cardboard with no running water in a very […]

The name Girgis is a Christian one. It’s hard to have this name in Egypt today. It makes people think of the famous St George, of whom the Orthodox Coptic Christians are so proud, and Girgis is convinced that this is what cost him his job in a government ministry in Cairo. His name, along […]

The incredible story of how one Hmong church in rural Laos grew from the faith of one man and is now bursting at the seams. But Bibles are very scarce. “We are truly blessed to be able to worship here,” says Pastor Va Cha, as he looks fondly at the modest wooden church that he […]

‘You can imagine my emotions…’ Earlier this month the Prime Minister of Chad, Mr Joseph Djimrangar Dadnadji, broke away from meetings with international leaders to attend the dedication of the Chadian Arabic New Testament at a local church in N’Djamena, accompanied by most of his cabinet. “You can imagine my emotions,” said the Prime Minister, […]

“God bless those who have come to our aid today. It makes all Mali’s Churches feel proud.” Emmanuel Coulibaly is an elder at the church in Yirimadio, a suburb of Bamako, the capital of Mali. Today he is taking receipt on behalf of his church of sacks of rice donated as part of the project […]

Disabled people in Liberia, many of them maimed during the country’s decade-long civil war, are finding hope and building new lives through Christian outreach programs. The Bible Society of Liberia is providing thousands of Bibles for them. Each week, a group of men gather together on a sandy field in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city, to […]